The Sunday Crossword No 3109, Sunday 19 Jul 2020

ACROSS
1   A complete shambles, maybe setter’s to be given time out, quick! (4,9) DOGS BREAKFAST {DOGS}{BREAK}{FAST}
8   Primarily, extremely meddlesome matchmaker (Austen’s) (4) EMMA Acrostic Semi&lit
9   Acerbic Greek character can provide pudding (5,5) TARTE TATIN {TART}{ETA}{TIN}

10 Altogether where Dorothy’s dog food ended up (2,4) IN TOTO [DD]
11 'Blah blah blah': review of 48 Hours? (4-4) YADA-YADA {A}{DAY}{A}{DAY}<=
12 Parliamentarian to persecute revolutionary, Spooner reports (9) ROUNDHEAD (hound red to round head)
14 Perhaps, Sergeant // Major, perhaps (4) JOHN [DD]
15 Famous sportsman, ‘The Greatest’ (4) BEST [C&DD]

16 Stride around shopping centre making chit-chat (5,4) SMALL TALK {S{MALL}TALK}
20 Print pitch for pigeonhole (8) TYPECAST {TYPE}{CAST}
21 Dicky Benaud is one going from Vienna to Belgrade (6) DANUBE*

23 Horror-movie figure harshly bullies a headless dog (4,6) BELA LUGOSI* {BULLIES+dOG}*

24 Lawyer’s not finishing cheese (4) BRIE BRIEf

25 Furniture that might be rust-proofed and extremely baroque? (4-6,3) FOUR-POSTER BED {RUST+PROOFED+Ba...uE}*

DOWN
1   Tenor spotted piece to include: grand! (7) DOMINGO {DOMIN{G}O}
2   Some ragù: a nourishing substance with distinctive smell (5) GUANO [T]
3   Promise to put a wager on US novelist (7) BETROTH {BET}{ROTH}
4   Parliamentary business, one May's adroitly amended (5,3,7) EARLY DAY MOTIONS*
5   Prepares sourdough loaves, perhaps: essential things (we’re told) (6) KNEADS (~needs)
6   Nasty coat needing alteration, no matter the price (2,3,4) AT ANY COST*
7   Sick, tired, essentially stoned ... considered fit (5,2) TRIED ON {TIRED*}{stONed}
13 A fortune’s laid out for horror movie (9) NOSFERATU*
15 Piece of Laurel and Hardy finally, a fable that’s funny (7) BAYLEAF {h..dY+A+FABLE}*

17 ‘Salud!’, dit Emile (un peu reactionary) (7) LUDDITE [T]
18 Tried to influence bid with bloke losing £1,000, sadly (7) LOBBIED {BID+BLOkE}*
19 Adjudicator, curtly, after brief look, to increase price unfairly (6) GAZUMP {UMP}<=>{GAZe}
22 Bigwig to apprehend rising pong (5) NABOB{NAB}{BO<=}

Reference List
Setter = DOG, 24 Hours = A DAY, Grand = G, 1000 = K, Pong = BO(Body Odour)